Here's what I think is an important article by Frank Rich. His thesis, with which I agree, is that a lot of the talk about "moral values" in this country is bogus, or at least subordinated to profit. Here's Rich quoting Thomas Frank, the author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, a best-selling consideration of […]
Timothy Noah rebuts an article that argues we should not rid ourselves of the Electoral College. As I mentioned before we knew who won, I think the Electoral College is a terrible idea with no valid arguments in its favor. […]
I continue to receive 10-20 e-mails a day alerting me to "evidence" that George W. Bush stole the recent election via massive irregularities, primarily in Florida and Ohio. Keith Olbermann has apparently been flogging the issue on his MSNBC show and I caught one segment which, taken on its own, made a semi-convincing case that […]
The London production of The Producers — starring Nathan Lane on short notice — seems to be a smash. […]
For those of you who are getting bombarded with the idea that most of America is now "red states," here's an entry from a blogger who helps to put things in perspective. […]
One of my favorite records when I was a kid — and I still have that well-played copy — was a Golden Record called Bugs Bunny Songfest. Or at least, it was half a favorite record. It said on the front, "Original Cartoon Voices," which at age eleven or so, I took to mean it […]
No, I haven't forgotten you, dear POVonliners. I've been busy with a script, and whatever time I can spare for Internetting has been spent writing and designing a couple of new sections I'll soon be adding to the non-weblog part of this site. You'll see them here in a week or so. I've received a […]
Michael Kinsley on the post-election posturing. I'm not linking to a lot of political articles these days because I'm not seeing many that strike me as substantive. But I'm linking to this one. […]
The Writers Guild of America, in which I used to be rather active, is often wracked by divisive elections and issues. We often do not do more for the betterment of TV and movie writers because we're too busy attacking one another's wisdom and integrity. I will resist the impulse to compare this to the […]
If you have a TiVo, you probably take what they call Season Passes" to all your favorite shows. A Season Pass means, "Record every episode of this program." Here's a list of the 100 most frequent Season Passes among TiVo users. […]
I'm just now watching — or trying to watch — the Cat in the Hat movie with Mike Myers. I like Myers and I like everything Dr. Seuss ever did. Alas, the book doesn't translate into a whole movie and the make-up they have Myers in is just too freakish to accept him as a […]
John Kerry's concession speech sounded to me like every other concession speech given by anyone who loses an election, regardless of the situation. I don't think I want to ever see a candidate come out and yell, "The voters are idiots," but there are other things that could be said in what should be a […]
I want to quote this paragraph from the Zogby Poll website, just so I can link back to it easily in the future… "We feel strongly that our pre-election polls were accurate on virtually every state. Our predictions on many of the key battleground states like Ohio and Florida were within the margin of error. […]
Couldn't sleep. Got up about an hour ago to see if somehow America had suddenly realized last night was a huge miscount. Instead, I heard someone calling on all Americans to "get behind our President." I never know what that means. Seriously. When someone says "support the President" (whoever it is), I never know what […]
Assuming Ohio goes the way it's likely Ohio will go, we're going to be reading articles for months on why John Kerry lost. There'll be dozens of reasons, most of them probably valid to some extent. But I suspect the conventional wisdom will boil down to two reasons, one being that Kerry was not a […]